Materialism and Spiritual Vitality

“Unfortunately, there’s almost no difference between the spending habits of those who know Christ and those who don’t. Many Christians are enjoying financial stability or prosperity, but materialism has robbed them of their spiritual vitality.”  Howard Dayton, forward to Rich in Every Way

Be Nice

“Be nice to the people on the way up because one is likely to see them again on the way down.” Guy Kawasaki, Reality Check, p. 189

Scum, Refuse, Trash, Filth

“More important to us, however, the name implies that being people of faith does not mean we are better than anyone else. We know many non-Christians who think Christians are out to cast judgment on them. Our name makes it clear that we aren’t about that. We are just aware of our need for God, as Scum of the Earth. Fortunately, God never sees us like that! But the name is humble and we like that.“  Chris Baker, Scum of the Earth Church, Denver, CO.

When Should You Give?

“Some people think they can give only when things are going well. The reality is that you can give at all times.  If you give when you are hurt or when you are in hardship, you sometimes create the energy that can help you through your hard time.”  Azim Jamal and Harvey McKinnon, The Power of Giving

Get Ready to Face It

“Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.”  RalphWaldo Emerson

Praying for Prominent People

“We naturally suppose it is no use prayng for prominent people.  God will look after them all right.  The prominent people for God are marked for the wiles of the devil, and we may pray for them all the time.  Every now and again God gives us an alarming exhibition of what happens if we don’t.”  Oswald Chambers, If You Will Ask

God and Our Self-Worth

“We must understand that this hunger for self-worth is God-given and can only be satisfied by Him. Our value is not dependent on our ability to earn the fickle acceptance of people, but rather, its true source is the love and acceptance of God.  He created us. He alone knows how to fulfill all of our needs.” Robert McGee, The Search for Significance

God and You

“As long as you have a personal interest in your own character, or any set ambition, you cannot get through into identification with God’s interests.  You can only get there by losing for ever any idea of yourself and by letting God take you right out into His purpose for the world, and because your goings are of the Lord, you can never understand your ways.” Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

Effective Leadership

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” Theodore Roosevelt

Unbelief vs. Belief

“Unbelief is a fretful, worrying, questioning, annoying, self-centered spirit. To believe is to stop all this and let God work.” Oswald Chambers, If You Will be Perfect